Montebello: Who and Why?

I know this kind of stuff isn't the main thrust of publicbroadcasting.ca, but there are serious issues raised by the Montebello incident so I hope you'll pardon the deviation.

Now that the Sûreté du Québec has admitted to having plants in the crowd, the real questions begin to arise. I know that the police deny that their undercover officers were there to instigate anything, but it is clear from the video that that is simply not true.

So, the question now becomes who wanted the protests to turn violent and why? Sadly the Harper Government has already said there will be no investigation. So we are left to speculate and guess. Who stood to benefit by violence at the summit? It surely was not the police themselves. They stood to potentially be injured in the violence. Why would they make their day that much harder?

There is at least one person who springs immediately to mind. Someone who would benefit by news images of a violent, rock throwing crowd and massive arrests: Stephen Harper himself. There is no doubt that Harper wanted to trivialize the protesters and the issues they raised.

"the rules for jellybean contents are different in Canada than in the United States," Harper explained.
"They have to maintain two separate inventories.
"Is the sovereignty of Canada going to fall apart if we standardize the jellybean? You know, I don't think so. Maybe Mr. Dion thinks so, but I don't think so."

Was that the news story we were supposed to see that night? Harper inside talking about jellybeans juxtaposed with images of a riot outside? I think it's increasingly clear that there needs to be an independent investigation into this matter. Based on the lies and deceit that have occurred over this issue so far without a investigation, and reasonable explanation I think that people would be safest to assume the worst.